Workshop to Educate About Health Funding, Research

The “Community Based Participatory Research: A Hands-On Workshop for Health Promotion” will offer attendees the opportunity to develop an action plan for grant funding, learn effective research design and network with others engaged in community health promotion.

Source: Inside INdiana Business

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INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana’s former first lady, Judy O’Bannon, will present opening remarks at a hands-on workshop promoting community partnerships to improve health funding and research.

“Community Based Participatory Research: A Hands-On Workshop for Health Promotion,” sponsored by the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, will be March 20-21 at University Place Conference Center, 850 West Michigan Street.

The presentations are designed to foster and encourage campus-community partnerships as well as offer attendees the opportunity to develop an action plan for grant funding, learn effective research design, and network with others engaged in community health promotion.

Feature presentations include:

· Designing Evaluations for Campus-Community Health Promotion Programs: If We Want More Evidence-Based Practice, We Need More Evidence-Based Evidence

Lawrence W. Green, Dr.PH. Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics School of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at San Francisco

· Partnership Building Steven Jones, Ph.D. Coordinator Office of Service Learning, Center for Service and Learning at IUPUI

· Engaging the Community in Health Information Outreach: Planning for Success/Learning from Experience Elliot R. Siegel, Ph.D. Associate Director for Health Information Programs Development, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

· Show Me the Money: Funding for Campus-Community Partnerships Panel Moderator: Tina Darling, Project Coordinator, IU National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health

Presentations begin Monday, March 20, from noon to5:30 p.m. and Tuesday, March 21, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Cost for participation is $125 for one person; $300 for 3 persons from the same team; $325 for 4 or 5 persons from the same team; and $75 for students.

To register online, go to http://www.nursing.iupui.edu/lifelonglearning.

For more information, contact the Office of Lifelong Learning at 317-274-7779, or email censg@iupui.edu.

Co-sponsors of the workshop are the IU National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Healthy Cities at IU School of Nursing, IUPUI Center for Service and Learning, and Indiana Minority Health Coalition.

Source: IUPUI